Pamphlet 1660 Nahum kc 2-1
"His WRATH, the vengeance He takes, is "reserved for His enemies"
It
is our Father's desire, His will,
because
of the enormous love He has for all of His children
that
no
one should perish but that ALL "should come to repentance"
and
receive life eternal. It is for that reason that He is longsuffering to
us-ward
as
the apostle Peter explains:
Nevertheless, Peter continues in the next verse:2 Peter 3:9 The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsufferingto us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.
2 Peter 3:10 But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up.
In
other words, He shall pour out the fire of His wrath and destroy the "cosmos",
the
one-world system of the earth,
Babylon
the Great (Rev. 18:8),
symbolized
by Nineveh in this Book of Nahum.
He
will then set up His kingdom as we learned in our study of Micah
from
which He shall rule all nations with a rod of iron.
With
that in mind,
let
us review the first two verses of Nahum
and
continue our study of his "vision" of the 7th Trump and the 7th Vial.
Nahum 1:1 The burden of Nineveh. The book of the vision of Nahum the Elkoshite.
Nineveh
was the capital of Assyria,
the
seat of the chief Assyrian who was a type of the false-christ
who
shall come upon the land in the latter days
and
take (spiritually) captive the children of God.
Nineveh
therefore is a type of that "seat"
of
the false messiah of the final generation,
representing
the "place" where the abomination of desolation,
i.e.
the desolator (Satan) spoken of by Daniel the prophet,
shall
stand and claim to be Jesus Christ.
God
shall pour out His wrath upon that great city Nineveh,
also
called Babylon (confusion) the Great in Revelation,
and
it shall become history, archive material,
as
in burned up and gone up in smoke forever and ever.
Our
Father is not happy with the wicked who come against His children
and
He shall NOT acquit them!
[2] God is jealous, and the LORD revengeth; the LORD revengeth, and is furious; the LORD will take vengeance on his adversaries, and he reserveth wrath for his enemies.
Notice
that "The LORD revengeth" is stated twice here
to
draw emphasis to the importance of what is being said.
In
other words,
Make
no mistake about it!
The
Lord WILL TAKE VENGEANCE on His adversaries
on
that Day of Vengeance we read about in Isaiah 61:2,
i.e.
at His second coming.
However,
the comforting thing to know and understand is that His WRATH,
the
vengeance He takes, is "reserved for His enemies",
NOT
for those who mourn the evil in this final generation
and
who love and serve and trust in Him. Furthermore,
He
is slow to anger and has reserved His wrath for an appointed time.
Nahum 1:3 The LORD is slow to anger, and great in power, and will not at all acquit the wicked: the LORD hath his way in the whirlwind and in the storm, and the clouds are the dust of his feet.
We
already read how Peter described Him as "longsuffering"
because
it is His will that ALL come to repentance.
To
that end, 87 years before Nahum's prophetic doom of Nineveh was written,
our
Father sent His servant Jonah, whose name means "Dove",
to
Nineveh to preach unto them that they might repent of their evil ways.
And they did repent and God did spare them from destruction.
This
was an example,
a
type set forth just as Jonah was a type of Savior,
that
we might know and understand that in these last days the wicked,
even
the kenites,
can
repent and turn to Him and trust in Him (vs. 7)
and
be spared from the wrath of God
which
shall be poured out upon the ungodly.
However,
as we just read in verse 3,
He
will NOT at all acquit the (unrepentant) wicked.
Jonah
knew how gracious,
and
merciful,
and
kind,
and
slow to anger our Father is
and
that He would spare those who repent of their evil ways,
even
the enemies of our people.
Here is what Jonah had to say:
Jonah 4:2 And he prayed unto the LORD, and said, I pray thee, O LORD, was not this my saying, when I was yet in my country? Therefore I fled before unto Tarshish: for I knew that thou art a gracious God, and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and repentest thee of the evil.To study the Bible is the noblest of all pursuits; to understand it, the highest of all goals.
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